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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add glibc-locales variants for older versions of
	glibc.
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 14:23:33 +0100
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> * gnu/packages/base.scm (make-glibc-locales, make-glibc-utf8-locales): New
> procedures.
> (glibc-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-locales.
> (glibc-utf8-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-utf8-locales.
> (glibc-locales-2.27, glibc-utf8-locales-2.27): New variables.

This is for the benefit of people who run Guix on top of a foreign
distro.  On a Guix system people can simply use the =E2=80=9Clocale-libcs=
=E2=80=9D field
of their operating system declaration, but on a foreign distro there is
no way to install a locales package for older versions of glibc.

This patch generates variants for version 2.27 and overrides the name so
that both =E2=80=9Cglibc-locales=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cglibc-locales-2.27=
=E2=80=9D can be installed into
the same profile.  (Without the name override that=E2=80=99s not possible.)

--=20
Ricardo